Armand Panigel (15 October 1920 in

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, Ottoman Empire – 28 December 1995 in

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aged 75) was a French

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and

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. He was also a historical figure of French radio and television in the fields of classical music and cinema.

Early life

After studying at the French high school in

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, he studied law and mathematics at the

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Career

He began his career as

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and film producer in Cairo from 1939 to 1944. He became a well-known radio man in the 1950s. He created, produced and hosted on

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the flagship radio show ' from 1946 to 1984 (in particular with Antoine Goléa, Jacques Bourgeois and Jean Roy), as well as other broadcasts. From 1947 to 1964, he founded and directed the magazine ''Disques'', a review of classical records. At the time,

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commissioned him with indexing, with a view to publishing catalogues, all existing recordings of certain composers, starting with

Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or ...

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and Chopin. In 1946, he became the founding vice-president of the

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. Panigel worked for French television, as

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and

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for numerous programs: notably ''Au cinéma ce soir,'' which presented a film preceded by a montage of news from the time of its release, and ', which gathered interviews with French directors who were his contemporaries; but also ''Cinéma-Variations'', ''Ce jour-là, j'en témoigne : chroniques du temps de l'ombre 1940-44 (Histoire de la Résistance)'' and ''Portraits de cinéastes et de musiciens'' (1964–82). In 1985, he created the in

, a group of scholarship specialists in his favourite fields and concerned by the transmission of the memory of the great interpretations of the past, thus sharing 60 years of its private collections: more than 200,000 classical records, 40,000 films and 160,000 books on music and cinema. He also pursued a career as a publisher, notably as director of series at ''Régie-Cassette-Vidéo'', where he established ''la Mémoire du cinéma'', and founding director of ''Rééditions d'enregistrements du domaine public'' ( LPs) of classical music, dedicated to ''la Mémoire de la musique''. Panigel worked as chairman and chief executive officer of "Éditions et impressions de la Cinématographie française (1962–64)", président of the Commission d' du cinéma (1975–76), Member of the Board of Directors of the association des auteurs de films, Director of collections of classical music CDs (1993–95). His career was rewarded with his promotion to the rank of officer of the

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. He was the author of several reference books on music and cinema. In 1994, fascinated by new technologies, he began producing and directing

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s, "because it is a three-dimensional work, combining sound, image and text: it is the dream of my life," he declared to the AFP one year before his death.

Publications

* ''Le Guide français du disque'' (Éd. de la Revue ''Disques'', 1948) * ''L'Œuvre de Frédéric Chopin'' (Éd. de la Revue'' Disques'', Archives de la Musique enregistrée UNESCO, 1949) * ''Catalogue général des disques microsillons'' (Éd. de la ''Revue Disques'', 1958–64) * ''Index de la cinématographie française'' (Éd. La Cinématographie française, 1964) * ''Les Écrits de S. M. Eisenstein : le cinéma, son sens, sa forme''''Le Film, sa forme, son sens''
/ref> on livres-cinema.info, (adaptation from Russian and American, , , 1975)

References

External links

Armand Panigel
on Encyclopédie Larousse
La tribune des critiques de disques. Armand Panigel, Antoine Goléa, Jacques Bourgeois...
on YouTube
''Mort d'Armand Panigel''
on ''Libération'' (9 January 1996)
Armand Panigel, le pionnier... et le projet
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Panigel, Armand 20th-century French musicologists French film historians French television producers French television directors French radio presenters French television presenters French publishers (people) Record collectors Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1920 births People from Bursa 1995 deaths French film critics French expatriates in the Ottoman Empire French expatriates in Egypt